PUBLICATION ETHICS
Publishing Ethics and Malpractice Statement Summary
Think Bio Tech follows the guidelines of publishing ethics. We value the importance of academic rigour and peer-review process in ensuring the development of a coherent and respected knowledge. These evaluations ensure the quality of work and referred to by the institutions and interested public. This community of academic publishing mainly involves the author(s), the journal editor, the peer reviewers, and the publishers.
Our editors have a duty to fair play, ensuring confidentiality, disclosing conflicts of interest where applicable and cooperation in investigations when needed regarding publication decisions in line with the editorial preferences and goals of the journals.
Reviewers are expected to contribute to editors’ decisions by promptly and objectively reviewing and commenting on the papers they are assigned to review while also maintaining confidentiality and disclosing conflicts of interest where applicable and known.
This Publishing Ethics Policy applies to all our books and the following Journals:
- Journal of Natural Science Biology & Medicine
- Journal of Commercial Biotechnology
- Remittances Review
- Journal of Fish Taxonomy
- Journal Brasileiro de Patologia e Medicina Laboratorial
Authors are required to abide to reporting standards, maintain originality of submitted papers, avoid plagiarism as well as avoiding multiple submissions and concurrent publications. They are required to acknowledge resources and authorship of papers submitted. They are required to disclose any conflict of interest. Authors are required to disclose any fundamental errors in published works so these can be publicised and rectified if possible.
The Publisher is committed to ensure objectivity in academic review and publication process. Hence the Publisher avoids advertising, reprint or other commercial interest has no impact or influence on editorial decisions.
Publishing Ethics Full Statement
Think Bio Tech books and journals only consider publication if the following conditions are complied with:
- The research has been conducted with academic standards of rigour and integrity.
- The article/chapter/book/case study is original and/or justified to be republished, for instance, on grounds of reaching audiences in new disciplines/languages etc.
- The work has not been submitted elsewhere and is not under consideration with any other publication except conference papers and theses/dissertations.
- The work does not include libellous, defamatory or unlawful statements.
- Permission has been cleared for any third-party material included.
- Proof of consent has been obtained for any named individuals or organisations.
- Authorship has been agreed prior to submission and no one has been ‘gifted’ authorship or denied credit as an author (ghost authorship).
In the event of non-compliance with any of these conditions, we may remove or retract the work in line with the COPE guidelines.